This is one in a series of articles about farmers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed who have implemented Best Management Practices (BMPs), demonstrating that agriculture is half way to achieving the nutrient reductions needed to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its waters. View the rest of the series here.

Dale Powers standing in his wildlife food patch next to Middle River. Photo by Bobby Whitescarver.

Dale Powers was one of the first landowners in Virginia to place a permanent riparian easement on his farm. The easement, recorded in 1989, is a legal document that protects the environmental values of the land adjacent to the river that goes through his farm. Powers has a half-mile of river frontage along Middle River—a tributary of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River.

The easement restricts livestock from having access to the river and requires natural areas along the bank.

“I am trying to do my part to clean up this river. When it rains, this river runs like chocolate milk from all the cows upriver, and it stinks,” said Powers, a retired Marine who has been farming in Swoope since 1968.

Powers voluntarily fenced his cattle out of the river and its flood plain years ago because his cows were trampling the banks and he couldn’t keep a fence along the river because of flooding.

“I cannot understand why more farmers don’t take advantage of all the programs available to them to get their cows out of the streams,” he says. “The programs will pay for the fence, watering troughs, and even pay rent on what you fence out.”

When asked why more farmers don’t fence their cattle out, he replied, “They don’t think they are the problem, but in this watershed they are.”

In fact, according to a 2004 report, 94 percent of the bacteria pollution in Middle River was from domestic livestock.*

“We humans can bring back this river just like we humans brought back the bluebird. When humans are causing the problem like this polluted river, we humans should be willing to fix it.

“I think it’s worse now than it was in 1968. All the frogs have disappeared, the bass are gone, even the yellow suckers have disappeared. I think its cattle. There are a lot more cows now then there were in ’68.”

Comments

You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

http://life-assurance.co/SELLANNUITYPAYMENT/
SELL ANNUITY PAYMENTs | Annuities information and sources
THINKING OF SELLING STRUCTURED ANNUITIES?
Currently receiving or are you slotted/ scheduled to receive structured settlement annuity payments in the future, selling those payments for cash may be a useful option for you to consider. People now receiving such payments often find themselves in need of cash now instead of waiting around for checks to come in the mail

hi you can add an article about bitcoin, but put this article bellow it :

Earning / Bitcoin Free !! easily
To get a free bitcoin through cointellect very simple, namely:

1. sign up in Cointellect or via my affiliate https://cointellect.com/?code=ddd8f96c
2. Put the invite code ddd8f96c (mandatory! If not inserted, it can not sign up)
3. Download software cointellect mine. com / download /
4. Run the software mines and enter the license key
5. Set the appropriate strength of mining load computer specifications (the better specs then the computer can be set loadnya larger mining and the result of greater bitcoin).
Maximum safe limit in the range of 80%

Let me ask you a question… Are you trying to start an online business…? If so, let me know if this sounds like you: You want to make money online, but you keep getting caught up in all of the technical stuff that goes along with starting an online business

Battling Luxury Travel Anxiety Admin February 16, 2016 Battling Luxury Travel Anxiety2016-03-24T22:38:21+00:00 Business Travel No Comment The classic anxiety story about Luxury travel involves being on the road for a while only to suddenly remember that you forgot to turn off the oven. While that...…

DISCLAIMER

PLEASE READ OUR TERMS OF USEThe views and opinions expressed in the media, articles or comments on this site are those of the speakers or authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions held by CBF and the inclusion of such information does not imply endorsement by CBF. CBF is not responsible for the contents of any linked Web, or any link contained in a linked Web site, or any changes or updates to such Web sites. The inclusion of any link or comment is provided only for information purposes. CBF reserves the right to edit or remove any comments and material posted to this website and to ban users from the site without notice. Partisan, pornographic or other inappropriate content, product or service promotion, foul language or bad behavior is expressly forbidden and will be removed.